A Russian air attack on Odesa killed at least one, injured nearly 20 and badly damaged an Orthodox cathedral, Ukrainian officials said. The icon of the patroness of the city was retrieved from under the rubble
Odesa's ports were the departure point for grain leaving Ukraine in the Turkey and UN-brokered agreement."There can be no excuse for Russian evil. As always, this evil will lose. And there will definitely be a retaliation to Russian terrorists for Odesa. They will feel this retaliation," he said on Twitter.
"The Russian aggressors demolish grain stores, depriving millions of hungry people of food. They devastate our European civilisation, its sacred symbols," she said. Separately, the ministry said Ukrainian reports of a Russian strike on the cathedral were false, and that its targets in Odesa were located "a safe distance" from the cathedral complex. It said that the "probable cause" of the damage to the cathedral was a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile.
The city's military administration said that air defence systems destroyed nine out of 19 missiles fired at Odesa and the surrounding region.on Odesa as revenge for a Ukrainian strike last week on a Russian-built bridge to Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014. It has accused Ukraine of using the sea corridor to launch "terrorist attacks".
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